Abstract
Metaphors are creative cognitive constructs that are employed in everyday conversation to describe abstract concepts and feelings. Prevalent conceptual metaphors such as WAR, MONSTER, and DARKNESS in COVID-19 online discourse sparked a multi-faceted debate over their efficacy in communication, resultant psychological impact on listeners, and their appropriateness in social discourse. In this work, we investigate metaphors used in discussions around COVID-19 on Indian Twitter. We observe subtle transitions in metaphorical mappings as the pandemic progressed. Our experiments, however, didn’t indicate any affective impact of WAR metaphors on the COVID-19 discourse.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.icon-main.52
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, India
- Editors:
- Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Sobha Lalitha Devi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
- Venue:
- ICON
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- NLP Association of India (NLPAI)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 431–438
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.icon-main.52
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Mohammed Khaliq, Rohan Joseph, and Sunny Rai. 2021. #covid is war and #vaccine is weapon? COVID-19 metaphors in India. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 431–438, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
- Cite (Informal):
- #covid is war and #vaccine is weapon? COVID-19 metaphors in India (Khaliq et al., ICON 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/2021.icon-main.52.pdf
- Code
- makflakes/covid-metaphors-of-india